Gears from the Greeks: The Antikythera Mechanism -- A Calendar Computer from Ca. 80 B.C., Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780871696472)

Contents: Discovery of the Antikythera shipwreck; Discovery of and research on the mechanism fragments, 1902-73; The casing, general construction, and dial work; The arrangement of the plates and components of the mechanism; The door plates and orientation and use of the mechanism; The accuracy of gear teeth numbers; Description of individual gears and gear trains; The inscriptions; The Antikythera mechanism as an historical document; The early history of gearing and clockwork; and The invention of complicated clockwork and the differential gear. App.: Composition of the metal fragments (contrib. by Earle Caley and Cyril Smith); and Tech. note on radiography of fragments. Illus.

Author: Derek De Solla Price
ISBN-10: 0871696479
ISBN-13: 9780871696472
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1974
Pages: 70
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.25w x 0.15d